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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The Standard Oil Com¬ 
pany’s pumping station at Greeley. Kan., 
valued at more than $1,000,000, was 
burned June 2. 
A shortage of $20,000. representing 
money taken from the pockets of unidenti¬ 
fied dead at New York City’s morgue, was 
discovered June 2 by Commissioner of 
Accounts llirshfield and Public Adminis¬ 
trator Hoes. It was taken by a clerk, 
who used the money to play the races. 
Galveston, Tex., was placed under mar¬ 
tial law June 7 because of freight con¬ 
gestion there resulting from a strike of 
longshoremen. 
Four indictments of charges of profi¬ 
teering were returned June 4 by the 
Federal Grand Jury in New York City. 
Marcus I.essin, 705 Home Street, Bronx, 
and Louis Aaronson, 14-16 East 108th 
Street, Manhattan, are accused jointly of 
hoarding 106.000 pounds of sugar. Hy¬ 
man Cherrnay. of the World Food Pro¬ 
ducts Company, Inc., and Arnold Landres, 
were indicted for profiteering in 5.000 
pounds of sugar purchased April 16, 1920, 
at 17 cents a pound and sold to the Man¬ 
ufacturers’ Union on the same date at 25 
cents a pound. There is 360.0(H) tons of 
sugar in Czeclio-Slovakia available for ex¬ 
port that could be imported into this 
country and then be retailed at 18 cents 
a pound, according to testimony given by 
Irving Schwartz before the Lusk Legisla¬ 
tive Committee June 4. Schwartz is a 
member of the firm of Kuenzler & Co., 
exporters and importers, of 10 Wall 
Street. ‘‘Since 1914.” he said, “no phos¬ 
phates had been imported into that coun¬ 
try, and because of the inability to ar¬ 
range credits to enable the government to 
make purchases in 1918 and 1919, the 
soil used for the cultivation of sugar crops 
is naturally curtailed for lack of phos¬ 
phate. The United States has refused to 
grant Czecho-Slovakia enough credit to 
permit her to purchase this phosphate. 
Czecho-Slovakia has not the money she 
needs to finance the purchase of this 
material, and in the meantime is not 
turning out the sugar crops she can and 
ought to produce.” 
A burglar entered the country home of 
Enrico Caruso at Easthampton, L. I., 
June 8. and carried away a strong box 
containing diamonds, rubies, emeralds and 
other jewelry valued at between $450,060 
and $500,000. 
Liquor valued at $100,000 was seized 
by Federal prohibition enforcement agents 
June 8 in a raid on a secluded farmhouse 
in the woods at Pearl River. N. Y. Trail¬ 
ing a truck loaded with 20 barrels of 
whiskey, which left a Manhattan bonding 
house, the agents came upon a dilapidated 
farmhouse, which was found to be stuffed 
from garret to cellar with wines, whiskies 
and malts. Richard A. Gerbscli. a saloon¬ 
keeper in the Washington Market dis¬ 
trict. Manhattan, the sole occupant of the 
farmhouse, was arrested. 
FARM AND GARDEN.— Bankers, 
grain dealers and railroad officials in 
Kansas City are denouncing the Ameri¬ 
can Railway Association and the Inter¬ 
state Commerce Commission for ignoring 
their appeals for relief from the car 
shortage. The Kansas and Oklahoma 
•wheat crop is about ready to harvest and 
a large part of last year’s crop is still in 
rural elevators or stored in barns. It is 
estimated that 30,000 usable cars are 
needed to move last year’s crop alone in 
Kansas City. . 
The International Congress of Agricul¬ 
ture met at Paris, France, June 7. for 
the first time since the commencement of 
the world war. Representatives of 
France, the United States, Belgium. 
Switzerland, Holland and Denmark were 
present. It was decided that Germany 
should not be permitted to participate in 
the present conference, but that with the 
other belligerent countries she will be in¬ 
vited to next Spring’s conference. The 
congress also decided to enter into rela¬ 
tions with the League of Nations. For¬ 
eign countries which have not sent repre¬ 
sentatives to the present congress have 
declared they will agree to the decisions 
reached by it. 
Still another poultry contest is to be 
started. This is the Long Island Egg- 
laying and Breeding Contest, which will 
be conducted at the Farm School at Farm- 
ingdale. Long Island. This will start 
November 1. 1920, and continue for three 
years. It will be conducted on very much 
the same plan as the Vineland contest; 
2,000 birds will be entered, and the first 
year they will be tested for a pullet 
record. The second year these pullets 
will be matured hens, which will be bred 
through a good male bird and chicks 
hatched from their eggs. The third year 
a pen of pullets from this breeding will 
be tested for another pullet record. This 
is the general plan, which has worked out 
bo well at Vineland. If the Long Island 
contest is handled right it will prove an 
excellent thing. 
America is faced by the greatest scar¬ 
city of foodstuffs in its history because of 
the flow of labor from the farms to the 
cities, heads of three national farm or¬ 
ganizations declared in a memorial pre¬ 
sented June 8 to President Wilson. The 
petitions ask the President to use Gov¬ 
ernment machinery to allocate such labor 
as may be recruited before harvest, and 
recommend a cessation of public work - 
national, 'State and municipal—until af¬ 
ter the crops are gathered, 
mediate relief can be effected in the farm 
labor situation we will soon be face to 
face with what leading agricultural eco¬ 
nomists believe will be the greatest 
scarcity of foodstuffs ever experienced in 
America,” said the memorial. It was 
signed by T. C. Atkeson, for the National 
Grange: Gray Silver, for the American 
Farm Bureau Federation, and Iv. F. 
Bower, for the Farmers’ Union. City 
workers, it is suggested, might work 
longer and harder to free labor for the 
farms. If the average factory laborer 
appreciated the situation he would be 
willing to increase his labor from eight 
to 10 hours daily until the emergency is 
passed, the farm leaders declare. City 
dwellers, it is suggested, would he the 
ones to suffer, since farmers are able to 
grow enough products to supply them¬ 
selves without difficulty. They need more 
labor to provide the surplus to feed and 
clothe city people. The farm leaders as¬ 
serted that higher prices seem inevitable. 
“Living costs will mount higher and un¬ 
rest become greater until proper legisla¬ 
tion gives the necessary facilities to in¬ 
crease production and provide proper dis¬ 
tribution.” said Mr. Silver. He criti¬ 
cized Congress for not passing needed 
agricultural legislation. 
The fifty-second annual meeting of the 
American Jersey Cattle Club was held 
in New York on June 2. Progress was 
reported in every department of club 
activities. The total registrations and 
transfers of Jerseys for the past year 
showed an increase of 25 per cent over 
the figures for the previous year. There 
are now more than 6.000 Jerseys on 
Register of Merit test, the testing being 
done by 775 Jersey breeders. Three new 
records were made in the past year, two 
of them being champions over all breeds, 
one in the Senior Yearling Class and the 
other for cows of 12 years and over. 
Issa Tanimura. sent by the Japanese 
Government as Commissioner of Live 
Stock, was elected first honorary member 
of the A. J. C. C. All of the officers 
were re-elected to their positions. M. D. 
Munn as president. E. A. Darling as 
vice-president and George T. Chaffee as 
treasurer. R. M. Gow was reappointed 
as secretary. 
WASHINGTON. — President Wilson 
June 4 vetoed the bill to establish a 
budget system of submitting the appro¬ 
priation estimates of Government depart¬ 
ments. The President said that under the 
bill Congress would have authority to re¬ 
move the Comptroller General from office 
and that this authority should be reserved 
to the Executive Department. 
The Senate Public Lands Committee, 
by unanimous vote, ordered a favorable 
report June 4 of the Borah bill designed 
to aid World War veterans in buying 
farms and suburban homes and appro¬ 
priating $300,000,000 to be spent for this 
purpose during the next 10 years. Not 
more than $50,000,000 could be expended 
annually. The bill will not be considered 
by the Senate until the December ses¬ 
sion, according to Chairman Smoot. The 
measure provides for a national veterans’ 
settlement board of three members, ap¬ 
pointed by the President, which would 
make loans to veterans for the purchase 
of farms or suburban homes. The maxi¬ 
mum loan would be $3,000. Veterans also 
would be able under the hill to acquire 
reclaimed land. 
Five thousand clerical employees of the 
War Department will be let out by July 
1 because of reductions by Congress in 
department appropriations. Since May 1 
about 1,500 men and women have been 
dropped from the force, which will stand 
after July at 7.000. approximately the 
number provided for in current appro¬ 
priations. 
The Supreme Court June 7 ruled that 
the prohibition amendment to the Federal 
Constitution and the Volstead act enforc¬ 
ing it are valid. The ruling means that 
(he Volstead act must be enforced in 
every State. The sale of beverages con¬ 
taining more than one-half of one per 
cent of alcohol will not be permitted, re¬ 
gardless of State laws increasing the per¬ 
centage or whether a State Legislative 
has ratified the amendment. State laws, 
like those enacted in New York, New 
Jersey, Wisconsin and Rhode Island per¬ 
mitting light beer and wines, are nulli¬ 
fied. The decision ends the hope that 
prohibition might be overthrown in the 
courts. The only way in which the 
Eighteenth Amendment may be repealed 
lies in action by three-fourths of the 
States, the same proportion by which the 
amendment was adopted. 
.Tune 19, 1920 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
June 19—Berkshires. Piping Brook 
Farms, Greenwich, Conn. 
June 26—Dispersal sale, registered 
Jersey and Guernsey cattle and registered 
Berkshire swine. Greenore Farm. 
Penllyn, Pa. 
Oct. 13-14—Ilolsteins. National Dairy¬ 
men’s sale in connection with the Na¬ 
tional Dairy Show, Chicago, Ill. E. M. 
Hastings Co., managers. 
Oct. 14—Ilolsteins. West Michigan 
Holstein Breeders’ semi-annual sale. W. 
R. Harper. Middleville, Mich., secretary. 
Oct. 28-29—Ilolsteins. Green County 
ITolstein-Friesian Breeders’ Club sale, 
Monroe, Wis. L. L. Hare, Monroe, Wis., 
secretary. 
Nov. 23-24 > Ilolsteins. Watertown 
Holstein Sales Co., semi-annual consign¬ 
ment sale at Watertown, Wis. Francis 
Darcey, manager. 
Coming f armers’ Meetings 
Summer Field Meeting, New Jersey 
State Agricultural College, College Farm. 
New Brunswick, June 16-19. 
Eastern Soil Fertility School. State 
College, Pa., June 28. 
Canadian Agricultural Fairs—Calgary. 
June 28-July 3; Edmonton. July 5-10; 
Saskatoon, July 12-17; Regina, July 
26-31. 
Summer meeting. New Jersey State 
Horticultural Society, Henry II. Albert¬ 
son’s Green Hill Farm, Burlington. N. .7., 
July 24. 
Apple Shippers’ Association, Chicago. 
Ill.. August 11-14. 
Ilornell Fair. Ilornell, N. Y.. August 
31-September 3. 
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in a crowded train. “Yes, I maintain 
that a woman can take a man’s place in 
almost any walk of life.” She looked 
around, as if expecting an opposition to 
her. statement. A weary Tommy, who 
was standing, tapped her on the shoulder. 
“Excuse me, mum, would you take a 
man’s place?” “Certainly,” she answered. 
"Well,” continued the Tommy, “take 
mine and let me sit down.”—London By¬ 
stander. 
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